Throughout the years, there has been a fairly constant number of contributions discussing the application of computer graphics and CAD as well as articles considering multimedia and web tool applications. They represent two sectors - the initial and final stages of documentation and education - that clearly demonstrate the widespread use of computers in the diverse phases of archaeological research.

Statistical analysis is one of the more important applications that have a fairly constant rate of recurrence, notwithstanding the general decrease in their success, but in keeping with the journal's policy. Contributions discussing databases were more frequent in the 1990's, and focused upon data storage and retrieval. Only in recent years has an interest in web-based database applications become apparent. The same can be observed for simulation and Artificial Intelligence applications, which seem to be more frequent in the 1990's issues, and less popular in the following decade.

On the other hand, articles dealing with applications such as Remote Sensing and GIS were less frequent in the early 1990's and more popular in the following years, as a reflection of technical developments. Several peaks of frequency for GIS are noticeable, in particular in 1998 and in 2008, as a result of the publication of the thematic issues dedicated respectively to GIS and web-GIS. The same can be observed for contributions about Virtual Reality: in recent years an interest in virtual archaeological reconstructions has become apparent, as is evident from the contents of the two Supplements.

The journal's focus on methodological problems is mainly represented by the articles on the history of applications, which had its peak in the 20th issue, dedicated to the birth of archaeological computing. From a theoretical point of view, it is also important to note a reasonably constant number of contributions discussing problems related to data encoding, which constitutes a basic step for each kind of data formalisation.